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Definition
extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening
- I was about to press the emergency stop button when I heard hideous wailing from the back row.Chapter 10 (78% in)
- Whatever is left of Kronos is still alive in some hideous way, still conscious in his eternal pain, still hungering for power.Chapter 21 (57% in)
- I thought about Gabe's spirit drifting forever in the Fields of Asphodel, or condemned to some hideous torture behind the barbed wire of the Fields of Punishment-an eternal poker game, sitting up to his waist in boiling oil listening to opera music.Chapter 21 (90% in)
There are no more uses of "hideous" in The Lightning Thief.
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